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The RAF’s youngest female pilot, Flying Officer Emma Atkinson, is currently
training Afghanistan’s first female Air Force helicopter pilots in a small
office tucked away in a corner of Kabul’s airport. Flying Officer Atkinson,
22, is the UK’s first female mentor at the The “Thunder Lab” flight school,
which is part of the Nato Air Training Command (Afghanistan), and is
training a team of Afghan women along with their male counterparts. Her role
is to teach a variety of aviation-related skills, including instructing
students to fly “virtual circuits” of RAF Brize Norton

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